On: AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung...

[pauln99]

In fairness, I was responding to the first sentence in the quote from the article.

It seems relevant, as a patient to ask, on average, how much longer will I live if I take this drug?

[s1artibartfast → pauln99]

To which, an average is a pretty poor way to convey non-normal data.

If you run a year long trial where you flip a coin and immediately kill or save people based on the results, your average survival will be 6 months